Freeze Frame: A Snapshot Look at December Movies
By Lisa Collins, Hollywood.com Staff
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The Spirit
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Foreign, Thriller
Release Date: December
Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson, Jamie King, Paz Vega
Scoop: A detective (Gabriel Macht) prevents an attempt to release a substance that will leave the citizens of Central City in suspended animation. He is exposed to the goo, which gives him the ability to withstand any beating which may come from Octopus (Jackson). He battles crime and a slew of femme fatales.
If a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, We Say: And the eyes have it! Between Samuel's sea moss eye shadow, and Scarlett's Germanic art librarian eye gear, we smell the pleasant, candied aroma of guilty pleasure seeping out of this oven. It may not be a critical success, but it may have a few of us kidz running to the theater.
Snapshot Prediction: 3 out of 5 flashes
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